We’ve had a fairly-typical fall-weather day
around here, and while there was a dash or two of rain; that’s been more like
spritzes of water; and didn’t get in the way of our work or play.
I did have some play time today too; though
there’s been a lot of work as well because I’m trying to do more now to be
ready for the play and work we’ll have this weekend for the fall festival. My pre-school morning was standard issue
action for a Monday morning; we had a good day at school that wasn’t at all
exciting from the classroom perspective; and added a bit of fun here and there
that had absolutely nothing to do with our education. While the boys were busy with football after
school, Rowen came home with me and we mostly played for a couple of
hours. Mom did a Magi lesson with us; we
spent some time with Ethan and Ehlana; and then had some girl chat time in the
lounge before we needed to meet up with our respective boyfriends again.
For me, that meant meeting up with Michael
at his house for dinner; we had fun doing that with his parents, Rebecca, and
Lucas; and then Lucas had to get home while Michael, Rebecca, and I did our
homework in the dining room; talked about more entertaining things like the
fast food joint Rebecca and Jenny are now dreaming about opening in town; and
Rebecca caught us up on the latest teen drama from the senior class – though in
our little town; that doesn’t ever take very long. Once we had the homework out of the way;
Michael and I had a music practice in his room to get ready for tomorrow; there
was a moderately-hot make-out break after that; and then we had a visit with his
parents in the living room until it was time for me to come home again at
ten-thirty.
Once there, I had a bedtime visit with my
family; took care of getting the twins tucked in for the night; and then came
up here to my room to get started on my ‘real’ work and studies. I’ve time phased most of that, so it’s only
going on one instead of five, but that has still tired me out; and I’ll need
the extra nap time and possibly a bit of self-healing too in the morning. If I keep going like that for the next couple
of nights, though, I might have everything on my schedule finished by Wednesday
night; so it’s worth trying to do that ahead of the fall festival weekend.
While I do want to get started on my nap
soon, I’m overdue for some updates that I keep slacking off on when I’m more
interested in sleeping than anything else most nights when I get around to this
report; so let’s at least go over a few things before I need to crash and
sleep.
Since I already mentioned it, Rebecca and
Jenny are getting serious about their future career plans, and while they dream
about that on their own too; Rebecca likes to talk with Michael and me for some
reality checks to go along with Jenny’s less-practical interests in having
their own fast food business. A pizzeria
is the most-likely choice right now, but they could still change their minds;
and that wouldn’t really even affect the overall planning they need to do to
get from here to being junior entrepreneurs.
I’ll keep helping out with that, and Mom and Miranda will be consulted
eventually too; but Rebecca and Jenny still need a bit more time for the
dreaming stage before they’ll be fired up enough to get started on the real
work that will go into making those dreams happen.
Moving along; let’s do a lab update. Uncle Adam and Ehlana are working on a
half-dozen different research projects, and while Dillon can’t work at the lab;
he has been doing some work with them from school when he can. The specialized crop developments continue to
be the most commercial research they’re doing so far, but we didn’t expect
instant results for the bigger challenges – like cancer research or curing the
common cold. As I think about that, I
can’t help but wonder if you’ll find that funny reading this in the future –
especially if Ehlana, Uncle Adam, Dillon, and everyone else working at the lab
actually have found cures to the major diseases of our time. My future job is going to be flashier that
Ehlana’s, but she loves working at the lab; and we know she’s going to do
amazing things there!
For Ethan’s part, the archives are slowly
filling up as Grandpa Grant and Grandma Eleanor continue to lead the team that
is bringing the archives home from around the world. Ethan is leading the way for getting the
archives organized; he’ll be completely re-doing our digital archives; and then
he’ll really get to work after that! You
might not consider that a big deal in the future if that work is done by the
time you read this, but trust me – Ethan’s job is going to be a lifetime
commitment as important as the jobs Ehlana and I will be doing. He’s going to take what Mom’s been doing with
Magi training and everything else she’s done on that side of the family
business and take it to the next several levels. You may already know that, depending on how
far into the future you’re reading this, and I won’t add anything else right
now; but will add updates now and then.
On the family front, I haven’t spent
nearly-enough time with Faith since she was born, but I can tell you that Mom
is impressed with her – and with how great Aunt Leanne is doing as Faith’s
primary Magi mentor. Yes, she has a fair
bit of experience now, but she has a talent for teaching neo-natal Magi too;
and that is going to make a huge difference for the kids she’s helping. There’s more going on with the new Magi kids
that have been born since Mom and I moved here, but I’d hate to spoil any future
surprises; so let’s not go there. I am
hoping that I’ll get to spend some extra time with my cousins this weekend, but
that might not be possible when I’ll also have work at the Inn, our football
game on Friday night, and shifts helping out with the fundraiser booth at the
park too.
Let’s hope for great weather from Friday
through Sunday! ;^)
Let’s see – what else should I
mention? The new apartment building has
the foundation pretty much finished now; and the steel framing is going up very
quickly. Every good-weather day is
helping to keep that project ahead of schedule; so the building should be up
and closed in by winter; and then they’ll do all of the inside work through the
winter and into the spring. The outdoors
phases of construction on other houses and townhomes in the new section are
winding down now too; so the construction work should be completely indoors
this winter. With most of the major work
finishing up this fall, we’ll have some construction workers moving on by next
year; though we will still have enough ongoing work to keep most of them here
for years. The good news is that the
workers that are staying have come to love living here; and the workers that
don’t like small-town life are happy to get back to their favorite cities and
the faster lifestyle they prefer.
That, by the way, isn’t a hit on cities or
meant to be insulting. I’m just stating
a fact that small towns are not for everyone – and not simply because if they
were; there isn’t enough room in this country for that many small towns!
Okay, that thought process clearly demonstrates
my need for a nap – especially now that I’m busy mentally calculating how many
small towns this size we’d need just for the people living in New York and Los
Angeles. Then again, considering the goofiness
surrounding the Presidential elections right now; creating one small town for
every Congressman and Senator might be a good start – especially if we fill up
each of those towns with the lobbyists, bankers, and lawyers that help to make
such a mess of our political system!
Better yet, let’s put those towns in places where they can find out
first hand just how horrid some of the decisions they make really are for
people all over the world.
Sure, that wouldn’t be fair or a nice thing
to do to the people in places like Syria, Libya, Pakistan, or dozens of other
places; but they might be willing to help us out if it would stop the madness
in Washington D.C. for a while.
Now I’ve completely gone off the rails with
this update, so I’ll quit before I go into political rant mode and call it a
night. It’s been a good day, if not of
the best-ever-so-far variety, but while we do still have a couple of busy days
to get through ahead of the fall festival fun; I’ll be happy to do the extra
work so that we can all have a great weekend together. Getting the nap time now will help with that,
and now I really am just rambling on and on and on and on anyway; so, until
next time...
...May the Magi Force be with you!
